As I have said before, truth is self-authenticating. It proves itself when it is practiced. Jesus said, “If anyone chooses to do God’s will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own” (John 7:17). The most important reason for obedience is that it expresses love for, and trust in, God. But obedience to God has a very pragmatic purpose as well. Life only works out well when you do it God’s way. Yet again in Deuteronomy 11 God warns his people that their ability to possess what God wants to give them is dependent on their obedience to God: “Observe therefore all the commands I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and take over the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, and so that you may live long in the land” (vss. 8-9). You just don’t know what you are capable of until you give yourself over to God. He will lead you to places in life that you would never have imagined. People who will not trust and obey God miss out on so much of life. They fail to realise all that they could have been. Step forward and live the way God is calling you to live, lest you forfeit the amazing life that God wants to give you.
Commit yourself to live in obedience to God.
Read Deuteronomy 11
